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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. The Service is committed to strengthening and expanding hunting and fishing opportunities,” said Ashe. “By

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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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New England Reptile Distributers just released a video explaining a terrible incident involving the FWC (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission). FWC officers arrived at a reptile facility and forcefully killed 29 reticulated pythons, 5 Burmese pythons, and 1 pregnant Boa constrictor.

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The Mysterious Case of Fighter the Fighting Fish

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The Mysterious Case of Fighter the Fighting Fish. Dogs aside, I’ve tended to plenty of small mammals and reptiles in my years, and have seen some pretty interesting things. But there was never anything as fascinating as the Mysterious Case of Fighter the Fighting Fish. It was time for one last fish eulogy.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

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Anyway, the story is not quite how I remembered it, to be honest, but fitting enough to describe the almost claustrophobic birding experience in ever-shrinking Nanhui. The White’s Thrush will keep pretending to be a reptile. Pat Fish was the creative force behind a band called Jazz Butcher – he died in October last year.

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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools

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Based on his own experiences teaching ornithology to high school students in California, he believes that high school student often just need the spark of an interesting elective class that fills a graduation requirement. But his class was only one of two in the U.S., Think about it for a minute.

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Isla Isabel – Mexico’s Galapagos

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These mangroves function as a sanctuary for fish and other animals that then make their way as adults across the channel to the coral reefs that surround the island. Also present are six species of reptiles, including the numerous Brown Iguanas. . Red-billed Tropicbirds nest on these craggy cliffs.

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To Spotlight or not to Spotlight?

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It brings mammals, and frogs in profusion, and reptiles, and insects. It was the perfect experience, the guide had astonishing eyes and found things we would have passed over if we had been alone. It’s hard to know how to predict how a spotlighting experience is going to go. Or nothing big at least. So many insects.

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